{"id":24950,"date":"2013-07-18T22:32:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T18:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=24950"},"modified":"2013-07-18T22:32:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T18:32:58","slug":"menendez-praises-powers-stand-on-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=24950","title":{"rendered":"MENENDEZ PRAISES POWER&#8217;S STAND ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Menendez_power_corker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24952\" alt=\"Senate UN Ambassador\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Menendez_power_corker.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Menendez_power_corker.jpg 512w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Menendez_power_corker-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Menendez_power_corker-484x300.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>&#8212; Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Cites &#8220;Principled Position&#8221; of U.N. Ambassador Nominee<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, opened his hearing on the confirmation of Samantha Power to serve as U.N. Ambassador by telling her that he is &#8220;incredibly appreciative of the principled position you\u2019ve taken on the Armenian Genocide,&#8221; reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the start of the highly anticipated and widely broadcast hearing, Chairman Menendez noted that, &#8220;You have been an unrelenting, principled voice when it comes to human rights and crimes against humanity \u2013 and I know that voice will be heard around the world &#8212; should you be confirmed,&#8221; adding: &#8220;Personally, I am incredibly appreciative of the principled position you\u2019ve taken on the Armenian Genocide. In 2007, you wrote in Time Magazine \u2013 \u2018a stable, fruitful, 21st century relationship\u2019 [with Turkey] cannot be built on a lie,\u2019 and I completely agree.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The New Jersey Democrat also stressed that, &#8220;Your belief that we should use the lessons of what clearly was an atrocity of historic proportions to prevent future crimes against humanity is a view consistent with my own and which is supported by your role on the President\u2019s Atrocities Prevention Board. \u00a0I agree that we must acknowledge and study the past, understand how and why atrocities happen, to put-into-practice and giving meaning to the phrase, \u201cnever again.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The full text and video of the opening remarks by Chairman Menendez are available on-line:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/press\/chair\/release\/chairman-menenadez-opening-statement-at-nomination-hearing-for-samantha-power-to-serve-as-us-ambassador-to-the-united-nations\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/<wbr \/>press\/chair\/release\/chairman-<wbr \/>menenadez-opening-statement-<wbr \/>at-nomination-hearing-for-<wbr \/>samantha-power-to-serve-as-us-<wbr \/>ambassador-to-the-united-<wbr \/>nations<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Cites &#8220;Principled Position&#8221; of U.N. Ambassador Nominee WASHINGTON, DC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,224,113],"tags":[1839],"class_list":["post-24950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-news","category-politics","tag-menendez","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}